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Richard Malcolm Johnston
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Richard Malcolm Johnston (March 8, 1822 – September 23, 1898) was an American author.
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There are things in one's thoughts sometimes, particularly upon humorous themes, that can not be put with near as much aptness and poignancy in entirely grammatical, rhetorical phrases. Even if this were possible, the characters that I have tried to illustrate spoke the language that I put into their mouths.
Autobiography of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston (1900)
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Category:1822 births
Category:1898 deaths
Category:Short story writers from the United States
Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States